Gilbert Highet - Works

Works

Highet wrote voluminously. He is remembered today for:

  • An Outline of Homer (1935)
  • The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (1949)
  • The Art of Teaching (1950)
  • Man's Unconquerable Mind (1954)
  • Juvenal the Satirist: A Study (1954)
  • The Anatomy of Satire (1962)
  • The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
  • Another solution (1951) one of Highet's few fictional pieces, published in Harper's Magazine.

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    The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
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    You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don’t look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don’t let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.
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    The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?
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